Updates (Nov 5, 2025)
Working, working hard.
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The thing I realize is to do stuff that matters to you and ‘is you’.
Overtime doing the things you want will make you good.
You become complicated and that is a good thing.
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When you become complicated you become countering.
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You had to do the things you needed to do.
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You live day-by-day doing what you need really???
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As a Vietnamese guy born in the West the duality is weird. There is an aspect where you live idly. Live like you see in sitcoms. And then when you get in your 30s you realize you got to work just to live.
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Working nights in supermarkets 36+ hours a week taught me everything about life in my early 30s. Could I afford to live on my own? Could I have free time to enjoy and relax? Could I grow? Did I have mobility? Could I socialize? Did I learn? How long could I keep at this? Whose culture am I living in? Who am I benefiting? Am I benefiting? Who am I helping? Am I here to serve?
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Finally in 2025, I learned about ‘hard work’.
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